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The time to offer treatments for COVID-19
(Expert opinion on investigational drugs, 2021)
Background: COVID-19 has several overlapping phases. Treatments to date have focused on the late stage of disease in hospital. Yet, the pandemic is by propagated by the viral phase in out-patients. The current public health ...
Inoculum at the time of SARS-CoV-2 exposure and risk of disease severity
(International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020-08)
A relationship between the infecting dose and the risk of disease severity has not been demonstrated for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, we report three clusters of individuals that were potentially exposed to distinct inoculum ...
Short Communication: Impact of COVID-19 on Case Reporting for HTLV and HIV-2 in Spain
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2021)
The medical demand imposed by COVID-19 has distracted proper care of other illnesses. Herein, we report the impact on new diagnoses of HTLV-1, HTLV-2, and HIV-2 in Spain, where these infections are mostly driven by immigration ...
Situación epidemiológica actual de la infección por VIH-2 y HTLV-1 en España
(Medicina clinica, 2021)
La familia Retroviridae incluye 7 subfamilias. Los miembros de
2 de ellas infectan a humanos y son patogénicos. Se trata de los
deltarretrovirus, de los cuales el human T-cell lymphotropic virus
(HTLV, «virus linfotrópico ...
Impact of scaling up SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on COVID-19 hospitalizations in Spain
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)
Background: The advent of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines has been associated with a significant decline in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalizations and deaths. However, ...
Envisioning a hepatitis delta cure with new antivirals
(Future Medicine Ltd., 2021)
Envisioning a hepatitis delta cure with new antivirals
Main differences between the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Madrid, Spain
(International journal of infectious diseases, 2021)
Background: The emergence and rapid global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major challenge to health services, and has disrupted social and economic activities worldwide. ...
Third wave of COVID-19 in Madrid, Spain
(Innoeduca-international journal of infectious diseases, 2021)
A third wave of COVID-19 occurred after Christmas 2020 in Madrid, one of the European pandemic epicenters. We noticed 6 major differential features to previous waves. First, household contacts were a large proportion of ...
Coronavirus and other airborne agents with pandemic potential
(Current opinion in environmental science and health, 2020)
The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has caused a pandemic, which is the most severe infectious disease outbreak in many decades. Other infective agents such as ...
The opioid epidemic during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on HIV and HCV control
(NLM (Medline), 2021)
The opioid epidemic is a tragedy in the United States. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 US citizens died of drug overdose, up almost 30% from the 78,000 deaths in the prior year.